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[Jeff]

Yodas Luke

I agree with you regarding those scenarios.

However, I presume that we both agree that it would not be a good idea to have a forward-leaning spine tilt at impact when hitting a driver.

Also, I generally agree with you when you state-: "I could position the ball inside my foot and outside my Left Shoulder (very wide stance and/or too much axis tilt at Address), and I'd have the ability to strike the ball with an ascending blow." However, I think that Jamie Sadlowski has the ability to hit a descending blow under those same conditions - because his left upper arm is well ahead of his left shoulder socket at impact, and he also has a large degree of left elbow bend at impact which moves his left forearm behind (inside) his left upper arm and it also angles his left forearm backwards away from the target.

OB left

You wrote-: "Arrogance? Cool. Because I sometimes disagree with...... YOU?"

Not at all. I welcome disagreements and I would never label someone arrogant for disagreeing with me. I actually like disagreements because it forces me to rethink my position. I only used the term "arrogant" because your statement implied that you are intellectually capable of changing your mind, while simultaneously implying that I am too rigid a thinker and therefore "a priori" incapable of intellectually changing my mind in the face of a good counterargument.

I have changed my mind about many points regarding the golf swing - particularly since I started studying TGM in earnest (starting in April 2008 ). In particular, it has significantly changed my personal approach to my own golf swing. I never realized to what degree I was switter (because I unconsciously used "right arm power" in my downswing) until I more clearly understood the differences in power accumulator use in swinging versus hitting. I have now radically revamped my personal golf swing by becoming a much more "pure" swinger rather than a switter. I also recently changed my mind regarding head position in the golf swing. I used to keep my pelvis centralized at address, and I then tilted my upper torso rightwards to acquire some rightwards spinal tilt at address. That caused my stationary head to be positioned well right-of-center. I now much prefer Yoda's suggestion that one should keep the head centralized at adddress, and then shift the pelvis left-laterally at address to acquire a rightwards tilted spine. It works much better for me. The third major TGM-induced change of mind came when I more clearly understood the importance of extensor action - I only recently realized that extensor action is critically important in preventing chicken-winging of the left arm at impact, and that's another very useful insight. Hopefully, I will gain more TGM insights in the months/years ahead.

Jeff.